Notions of focus anaphoricity

  • This article reviews some of the theoretical notions and empirical phenomena which figure in current formal-semantic theories of focus. It also develops the connection between “alternative semantics” and “givenness” accounts of focus interpretation.

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Author:Mats Rooth
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112445
URL:http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_3rooth.pdf
ISBN:978-3-939469-88-9
Parent Title (German):The notions of information structure / Caroline Féry (ed.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 6
Publisher:Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:Potsdam
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/11/06
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:breadth of focus; focus; focus anaphoricity; intonation; scope of focus
Page Number:11
First Page:57
Last Page:67
Source:Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 6, 2007, S. 57-67 ; http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_3rooth.pdf
HeBIS-PPN:207964130
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht